REPORT OF CHIEF, OFFICE OF FARM MANAGEMENT AND 



FARM ECONOMICS. 



United States Department or Agriculture, 

 Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics, 



Washington, D. C, July 17, 1922. 

 Sir : I am submitting herewith the annual report of the Office of 

 Farm Management and Farm Economics for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1922. 



Respectfully, 



H. C. Taylor. 



Chief. 

 Hon. H. C. Wallace, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



As this is the final report of the Office of Farm Management and 

 Farm Economics as a departmental unit, it seems desirable to supple- 

 ment the current report with a brief recapitulation of the history and 

 achievements of the office from the time of its organization to that of 

 its merger with the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates to form 

 the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, as provided by Congress in the 

 appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal 

 year 1923. It is now nearh' 20 years since the work of the office was 

 inaugurated in the Bureau of Plant Industry, and in that time these 

 activities have come to assume an important place in the field of farm 

 economics. ]:)articular]y with reference to studies in farm organization 

 and in the anah'sis of the farm business. 



BRIEF HISTORY OF OFFICE. 



The Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics represents 

 the outgrowth of work started in the Bureau of Plant Industry in 

 1904, when investigations of farm management and farm practice 

 were set on foot by that bureau. For several years this work was 

 conducted by the Division of Grass and Forage Crop Investiga- 

 tions, under the direction of Dr. W. J. Spillman, in 1904 as agrostol- 

 ogist, in 1905 as agriculturist, and from 1906 to 1916 as agriculturist 

 in charge of farm management. In the agricultural appropriation 

 act for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1907, there appeared for the first 

 time the phraseology "To investigate and encourage the adoption 

 of improved methods of farm management and farm practice," under 

 which appropriations for this work have been made from that time 

 forward. • 



On July 1, 1915, the Office of Farm Management was transferred 

 from the Bureau of Plant Industry to the Office of the Secretary. At 



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